On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 10:12:46AM +1000, Richard Watson wrote: > I'd like to add my vote for this. Its removal would result in a nicer language > specification, and would remove a obstacle that novice programmers sometimes > stumble over. Yes, getting a sytax error if I write (x-1)*(-x-1) is a real stumbling block. Yours, Florian.